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While there are currently many lots at Burnt Mill Settlement available to build on, space IS limited, and we anticipate these prime locations will be sold quickly. Please contact one of our sales representatives to secure your dream home location before it's gone!

Single Family Homes/Lots

46

Duplexes/Lots

104

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46

Burnt Mill Settlement: History with Amenities (click to read more)

For centuries the state of Maine has attracted visitors, first for its iconic rocky coastline, but also because of its unique history tied to the early struggle to create a new nation. Located just north of the bustling city of Boston where architectural influence was predominately classical European, Southern Maine, like most other fledgling regions of New England, put its own stamp on the classical architectural styles that permeated the small towns on the coast, and the inland settlements that grew around the vast lumber resources of the state. Those resources were first used in the shipbuilding industry up and down the Maine coastline, and the significant woodworking skills used to build wooden sailing vessels later transitioned into house building skills. The architectural history of Maine that grew from the rich tradition of abundant resources and uncompromising building talent still proudly defines many of the towns and settlements that sprang up along the Maine coastline.

One such town is Wells, where the swift-flowing streams and rivers that ran to the Atlantic coastline provided essential energy to the sawmills that were its early economic centers. The Merriland river provided water power for a number of sawmills dating back to late 1600. The settlements that grew around the sawmill industry faced much adversity, particularly during the French and Indian war, when many of the mills were burnt to the ground. But the mills were rebuilt and the settlements continued to grow. From that history, the Hobbs Farm and adjacent sawmill grew up along the banks of the Merriland River in Wells, and the area became known as Burnt Mill.

Today, with a reverence for the past, and an abiding appreciation for the Maine architectural history that emerged from the efforts of the early settlers of the region, a new settlement is taking place and is appropriately called Burnt Mill Settlement. At the site of the old Hobbs Farm and the early sawmill on the Merriland River, the development will honor the past with new homes that replicate much of the venerable architecture that defines the architectural history of Maine and New England. To accomplish that worthy goal, the developers have engaged Michael and Linda Connor, the founders of Connor Homes and the founders of their new company, Connor Mill-Built Homes of Middlebury, Vermont to design and oversee the build-out of this very special development, Burnt Mill Settlement.

The Connors have nearly a half century of dedication to the design and replication of early New England architecture.

The plan for the Burnt Mill Settlement also includes an eighteen hole golf course designed by noted local golf course designer, Brad Booth. Brad's deep local connections and sensitivity to the development's past history as a sawmill location and the James family's century-old stewardship of the Hobb's farm has resulted in a course design that is not only a leisure time asset for the development, but also offers an aesthetic serenity in keeping with the overall nature of the Burnt Mill Settlement plan.